Side-delivery rake



I. DAIN, DECD.

J. DA|N.1n..ADMm|sTRATon..

SIDE DELIVERY BAKE.

APPLICATION FILED lULY I0, 191.9.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

"Ff/ff@ lnUznKnn fir UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH DAIN, DECEASED, LATE 0F MOLINE, ILLINOIS, BY JOSEPH DAIN, JR.; ADMIN- ISTRATOR, OF MOLINE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 TI-IE DAIN MANUFACTURING COM- PANY OF IOWA, OF OTT'UMW'A, IOW., A CORPORATION OF IOWA.

SIDE-DELIVERY RAKE.

Application led July 10,

To all fao/710m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, Josnrrr DAIN, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at M0- line, in the county of Rock Island and State oi' Illinois, administrator of the-estate of .losnrr-r Darn, deceased, at the time of his death a citizen of the United States, and a resident oi said Moline, Illinois, hereby de- Clare that the said JosnrH DMN did invent certain new and useful Improvements in Side-Delivery Rakes, of .which the following is a speciiication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to side-delivery rakes ot the type wherein a rotary reel is-arranged at an angle to the line of draft, sevral series of rake-teeth being carried by the reel and all of such teeth being maintained at the same angle so as to be properly presented in effective working position to the hay' to be raked. Such teeth are held in the desired uniform working position by the employment of suitable mechanism carried by the 'forward or inner reel-head and comprising. ordinarily, a set of gears in connection with each tooth-bar and a single other gear that is in mesh with one of the gears of each of said sets of gears.

It has been the common practice to provide means to support the frame that carries the reel by ground-engaging devices-usually casterwheels-between which and said frame a relative vertical adjustment could be effected, the frame during such adjustment turning about the main axle of the machine as an axis. In such adjustment, of course, it is evident that the outer or rear end ofthe said frame and the reel supported therein would move through a greater are than the other end oi' the frame and reel, and as it is sometimes deemed desirable that such other or inner end of the reel be given a greater range of vertical movement than is possible by the character of adjustment referred to above,` various attempts Vhave been made to provide means for an additional adjustment. invention to provide means for adjusting the inner end of the reel vertically independently of the adjustment that is eli'ected by the relative movement between the said lrround-engaging devices and the reel-carrying frame. This object is accomplished by the means shown in the drawings and here- Specicaticn of Letters Patent.

It is the object of this Patented Dee. 6, 1921. 1919. serial No. 309,887.

inafter particularly described. That which 1s believed to be new will be set forth in the claims.

In the drawings,- v

Figure 1 is a plan view of a side-delivery rotary rake in which is embodied the provements oi' said JOSEPH DAIN;

F ig. 2 is a detail, partly in horizontal section and partly in plan' view, showing the extensible `and jointed connection between the reel-shaft andthe bevel pinion by which power is applied to such shaft from the main axle of the machine; and

Fig. 3 is a detail, being a cross-section taken at line 3-3 of F ig. 2.

Referring to the several figures of the drawings,-10-1O indicate a pair of carrying wheels which are mounted upon an axle 11. Such wheels and axle will be connected together by any suitable means so that the axle will be caused'to rotate upon the forward movement of theV machine, but will not rotate when the machine is backed. It is not deemed necessary to illustrate such means as they are common and well understood. 12 indicates the reel frame which may be of any usual construction and connected in any desired manner with the axle 11 so that whenthe reel frame is adjusted vertically relative to its rear ground-engaging support or supports the frame will rock about such axle as an axis. The reel frame as usual extends diagonally rearward so that the hay operated upon will be moved laterally. In the drawing is shown the machine provided with two of the ground-engaging supports referred to, the same comprising caster wheels 13 each secured between a yoke 14 from which arises a standard 15, and from each standard extends a connection 16 to a common lever mounted on the usual long rearwardly extending truss member 17. These adjustingdevices are not illustrated in detail as by themselves they form no part of my invention, and, indeed, may be of any well-known construction. The details, how# ever, of the particular two-wheel supports are clearly shown and described in the Letters Patent No. 1313.880, dated August 26, 1919, granted upon the application of one Leon R. Clausen.

The reel that is rotatably mounted in the frame 12 comprises inner and outer heads 18 and 19 which are connected together by a plurality-preferably three-of bars 20 that carry the rake-teeth. The inner head 18 will have rotatably secured opposite its outer face a plurality of sets of gears, the number of sets correspondingin number to the number of the `tooth bars and in the outer gear of each set the forward end of one of the tooth bars will be secured as usual.- In Fig. 2 is shown in section one of the sets of gears referred to, the outer gear being indicated by 21 and the inner gear that is in mesh therewith being indicated by 22-the latter gear being, as shown, journaled on a stud projecting from the head. The inner member 22`of each ofthe sets of gears referred to is in mesh with a smaller central gear, as 23, which is ordinarily held fixed against rotation, but which by reason of being mounted on a cylindrical hub member may be rocked in order to effect a change in the positionV of the tooth bars so as to incline the teeth carried thereby ras desired. There is shown, but not in detail, a lever and movable sector construction for accomplishing this rocking of the central gear that is shown in and forms the subject-matter of the patent to L. B. Clausen, No. 1,283,674, dated November 5,1918.` The pivoted sector referred to is here indicated by 24 and the lever that interlockslwith such sector and is connected at its inner end with the gear 23 is indicated byv 25. Inasmuch as the inner or forward end of the reel shaft 26 is moved up and down in a straight line when adjusting it as` hereinafter described it is highly important that the adjusting lever such as 25 be capable of bodily movement lengthwise, or otherwise the upand down adjustment of the inner or forward end of the reel shaft could not be accomplished. By using the ivoted. sector shown in the said Clausen atent No. 1,283,674 in connection with this adjusting lever it is evident that notwithstanding such lever is locked to the sector no1interference is had with the free up and down movement given to the reel shaft because the sector' itself is pivoted and swings back andv forth as required.

26 indicates the central shaft upon which the'heads 18 and 19 of the reel are secured, and by the rotation of which shaft the reel as a whole is driven. It has been customary tosjournal the end portions of this reel shaft Vin fixed bearings carried bythe end members of the reel-supporting frame, but in order to accomplish the independent vertical adjustment ofthe reel at its inner or forward end a bearing is provided that is1-movable up and `down to the required exl tent and held locked in any of its adjusted positions. Inasmuch as it is` necessary,

however, that the driving gear and pinion.

through whose intermeshing the shaft is rotated be maintained constantly in engagement a novel extensible and jointed connection Vbetween the end ofthe shaft and the said pinion has been provided. Referring now to these novel features,27 indicates a wide Aheavy bracket 'depending from the cross-bar at the forward end of the rectangular frame 12, said bracket having therein a comparatively wide verticallyextending slot 28, as best shown in Fig. 3. One edge. ofthisf-slot is toothed, as indicated by 29. 30 indicates a stem extending into the slot 28 from. the outer face of the bracket and having a flange 31 to act as a limit stop. The stem 30 isprovided with a socket of a size and shape to adapt it to receive the end of the squared reel-shaft 26, asrindicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and, as alsoy therein indicated, the shaft when entered. in such socket is secured in place by a suitable pin or rivet. The vouter surface'of'the stem that lies within the slot of the heavy bracket27 is cylindrical and has mounted upon it, in the construction shown, a sleeve 32, and upon the sleeve is rotatably mounted a: pinion 33, the teeth of which are infmesh with the rack29 that is formed by the teeth on one edge ofthe slot 28. Inasmuch. as theV pinion 33- is` only required to be given a partial rotation, it is shown with teeth only around' a portion of its circumferencein other Vwords a mutilated pinion. As-vshown in Fig. 2, one end of the pinion is cast' with a small flange 34 that rests against the ribs on the inner face of the heavy bracket 27, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. To this flanged end of the mutilated pinion 33`and which pinion it will be noted ein tends tosome distance beyond the teeth that it carries (see Fig. 2)--is securely ailixed a vhand lever 35 that will be provided with the usual spring, latch for engaging the teeth of a sector, as indicated' at 36in Fig. 1, to holdlthe pinion in any position to which it may be adjusted *with4 reference to the rack 29 The stem 30 is forked and in this fork is located a head or block 30A that is pivotally secured-in placeby a pin or bolt 30B. Said pivoted head or block has at opposite sides laterally-projecting studs 30C upon which are pivotally mounted the two arms of a yoke 38, such yoke arms being secured to the studs by bolts 37 or otherwise. lVith the yoke is formed an elongated socket member 39, the socket of which is angular in crosssection and into which projectsa correspondingly shaped stem 40 having on one. end a head or block404 which` iits be tween the forkedl end of ashort stem 41A to which it is pivotally secured by a pin or bolt 41B. Upon laterally projecting studs 41C carried by such head or block are pivotally mounted` the two arms of a yoke 42 that are held in placev by boltsl 41 or otherwise." The said short stem 41* has formedV with it at that end opposite the yoke 42* inthe construction shown, a bevel pinion 43, and from the other face of the bevel pinion extends a short axle or shaft 44 that is j ournaled in a bearing 45 supported from a member of the reel supporting frame adjacent to the main axle ll of the machine, said short shaft 44 being secured in the bearing by means of a washer 46. In the construction shown the member of the supporting frame just referred to is in effect a supplemental frame section which is clcarlf,7 shown in Fig. l and which is indicated by f7, and it is rigidly connected to the main frame member l2 in any suitable manner, and pivotally supported upon the axle l2. In effect it constitutes a part of the reel frame. 48 indicates a squared sleeve lit-ting over that portion of the reel shaft between the hub of the central gear 23 and the extended hub of the mutilated pinion 33, and serves as a spacing device between those parts.

Upon the main axle of the machine is suitably secured a bevel gear 49 which is normally in mesh with the pinion 43 and serves by its rotation with the axle to drive such pinion and the reel shaft connected therewith. The axle will be provided with suitable clutch mechanism, such as indicated generally by 50` by the operation of which the gear and pinion may be thrown out of engagement with each other when desired-such clutch mechanism being of any usual character and hence not necessary to here illustrate or describe in detail.

At any time when it is desired to adjust the forward or inner end of the reel independently of the adjustment given to the reel frame as a whole such adjustment will be accomplished by a proper movement of the lever 35, which, by rocking the pinion 33 causes such pinion to move up or down on the rack 29, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 3, and inasmuch as the inner or forward end of the reel shaft 26 is revolubly supported in said vertical adjustable pinion it is evident that such vertical motion will necessarily be imparted to the shaft and the reel members connected therewith. Of course, to allow for this movement the bearing foi` the outer end of the shaft must be loose enough to permit of such movement. Inasmuch as this vertical upward adjustment of the forward end of the reel shaft would carry the pinion 43 out of engagement with the gear 49 if the shaft were continued without a joint as far as the said pinion and because, if such shaft were so continued, the downward movement herein contemplated could not be effected because of the bearing of the pinion 43 against the gear 49, there has been provided the iexible construction hereinbefore described comprisino the rocking connections adorded by the yokes 37 and 42 mounted on their respective pivot pins 37 and 41, and the sliding connections afforded by the stem 40 that enters the socket 39. It will be understood that by these means whenever the reel shaft is independently adjusted by means of the lever 36 and pinion 33 connected therewith the position of the pinion 43 with relation to the gear 49 will not be affected by the turning of the respective yokes on their pivots and that notwithstanding such turning may be to quite a considerable extent there will be no strain on or binding of the parts owing to the fact that the stem 40 will slide freely in the socket 39 to the extent desired. In whatever position the forward end of the reel shaft may be thus vertically adjusted the reel shaft will be properly driven inasmuch as the stem 40 is so engaged with the socket member 39 as to compel a rotation of that member and through the connection of that member with the stem 30 that is keyed or otherwise secured to the shaft the rotation of the shaft is of course, compelled.

By the construction and arrangement of the parts that connect the reel-shaft with the bevel pinion 43 it will be evident that such connecting means comprises two universal joints and thereby, in connection with the telescopic union of the members 39 and 40, provision is made for all possible variations in the relative relations of the reelshaft and the said driven bevel pinion.

IVhat is claimed as the invention and is desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a rota-ry rake, the combination of a frame, a rake-reel 'comprising a rotatable central shaft journaled loosely at one of its ends in the frame to permit the other end thereof to be vertically moved, a verticallymovable bearing for the other end of the shaft, a pinion supported at a distance from said movable bearing, sliding and pivoted means connecting said pinion and shaft, and a driving gear meshing with said pinion.

2. In a rotary rake, the combination of a frame, a rake-reel comprising a. rotatable central shaft journaled loosely at one of its ends in the frame to permit the other end thereof to be vertically moved, a verticallymovable bearing for the other end of the shaft, a pinion supported at a distance from said movable bearing, sliding and pivoted means connecting said pinion and shaft, a driving gear meshing with said pinion, and means for vertically adjusting the reelframe independently of the adjustment of the reel-shaft.

3. In a rotary rake, the combination of a frame, a rake-reel comprising a rotatable central shaft journaled loosely at one of its ends in the frame to permit the othel1 end thereof to be vertically moved, a verticallymovable bearing for the other end of the shaft, a pinion rotatably supported at a distance from said movable bea-ring, a pair of members slidingly but non-rotatively connccted with each other and pivotally conneited, respectively, with said pinion and shaft, and a driving gear meshing with said pinion.

4. In a rotary rake, the combination of a frame, a rake-reel comprising `a rotatable central shaft journaled loosely at one of its ends in theframe to permit the other end thereof tobe vertically 1noved,a slotted bracket carried by the frame in which is mounted a vertically-adjustable bearing for said other end of the shaft, means for holding said bearing in different adjusted posi tions in said bracket, a pinion iXedlysupported at a distance from said movable bearing, sliding and pivoted means connecting said pinion and shaft, and a driving gear meshing with said pinion.

5. In a rotary rake, the combinationA of a` frame, a rake-reel havin a shaft journaled in the frame, a slotted` racket carried by the frame, a rack on said bracket, a pinion located `in the slot in the bracket and rotatably supporting said shaft, said` pinion being in engagement with said raclga lever for turning said pinion tomove it along the rack to cause a vertical adjustment of the shaft, a pinion rotatably supported in a fixed position at a distance from said firstnamed pinion, fiexible means connecting said second-named pinion with said shaft, and a driving gear meshing with said `second-named pinion.

6. In a rotary rake, the combination of a frame, a rake-reel having a shaft journaled in the frame, a slotted bracket carried by the frame, a rack on said bracket, a pinion located in the slot in the bracket'and rotaassouvir tably supporting' said` shaft,i said pinion being in' engagement with said rack, a leverV for turning said pinion to move it along the rack to cause a vertical adjustment of the shaft, a pinion rotatably sup-l ported in a fixed positioni at a distance from said first-named pinion, slidingl and pivoted means connecting said second-named pinion. and shaft, and a driving gear meshing with said second-named pinion.

7. In a rotaryrake, the combination of a diagonallyarranged frame, a` Wheeled support at its 'forward end with which said frame is` pivotally` connected, a ground-engaging support at the rear of said frame, means for adjusting said frame` vertically relatively to said support, a rotatable reel sition' of the rake-teeth, a movable device mounted ont-he frame for interlocking with the lever, means for rotating and independently adjusting the inner` en-d of the reel comprising'a vertically movable bearing, a pinion rotatably supported? at a dis-` v tance from said bearing, sliding and pivoted` means interposed between and connected to said pinion and shaft, and a driving gear in mesh with said pinion. JOSEPH DAIN, JR., Aclmz'ncstmtor of theestcate of J oseph Dain,

deceased. V 

